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Your Democracy Thursday, October 16, 2025 - 07:43 Source

"Big John" Fisher, a British social media star known for his viral fast food reviews, has been detained in Australia over a visa issue.

Famous for his love of Chinese takeaway and signature catchphrase "bosh", Fisher arrived in Western Australia on Tuesday ahead of a tour of the country.

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MacroBusiness Thursday, October 16, 2025 - 07:24 Source

DXY is fading again. AUD has bounced but not very convincingly. CNY stable. That is a golden parabola. AI metals not so much. RIO has broken the big bear downtrend. EM strong bounce. Junk not so much. Yields firmed. Bulls returned. One should expect more volatility as we approach the Trump/XI walkover. The balance of

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Your Democracy Thursday, October 16, 2025 - 06:55 Source

Thanks to Opposition leader Sussan Ley, the government’s disgraceful attempt to squeeze the life out of the Freedom of Information Act is as dead as a herring.

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Your Democracy Thursday, October 16, 2025 - 05:44 Source

 

Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere hit a record high in 2024, according to a new report from the UN weather agency.

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said heat trapped by such greenhouse gases was "turbo-charging" the Earth's climate and causing more extreme weather.

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MacroBusiness Thursday, October 16, 2025 - 00:05 Source

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released dwelling construction data for the June quarter of 2025, which suggested that Australia’s housing shortage has worsened. The number of dwellings that commenced construction in the June quarter declined by 4.4% to 45,156, driven by a 6.6% fall in detached housing: However, over the year to the June

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Your Democracy Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 21:20 Source

Western nations should prepare to continue bankrolling Ukraine’s war effort against Russia for at least three more years, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski has said during a visit to London.

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Your Democracy Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 19:40 Source

US President Donald Trump has suggested that it is unlikely he will end up in heaven despite his efforts to mediate peace between Israel and Hamas.

During Trump’s flight aboard Air Force One to Israel on Sunday, Fox News’ Peter Doocy asked the president whether ending the war in Gaza would help him get into heaven.

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Your Democracy Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 18:47 Source

 

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Digitopoly Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 14:01 Source

What can a nineteenth-century economist teach a twenty-first-century Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at one of the largest technology firms? More to the point, why is Microsoft’s CEO, Satya Nadella, quoting William Stanley Jevons? Jevons was a dominant figure in economic thought in Britain during the second half of the nineteenth century, but not today.

His work populates the earlier chapters of textbooks on the history of economic thought, where he is credited with being a pioneer in starting the Neoclassical School of Economics.

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MacroBusiness Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 14:00 Source

Honestly, is there no end to this woke claptrap? Jenna Price thinks kids are the abusers of poor victim teachers. Here’s where we are today. One in four teachers feels unsafe at work, says Fiona Longmuir of Monash University. That makes them want to leave teaching. Years ago now, she and her colleagues set out

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